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Saving your Backup Plan
If you intend to execute the same backup more than once, you should
save your Backup Plan. This is done by selecting “Save as” or “Save”
from the File menu as usual. Backup Plan files have the file extension
“.bkp”. To open a saved Backup Plan, use the “Open Backup Plan” item
on the File menu.
The Externalize and Internalize functions
A saved Backup Plan contains a list of all folders for which a filter is de-
fined, and the specifics for each filter. However, if you rearrange the folder
structure on your hard disk, some folders listed in the Backup Plan may no
longer exist in their original locations. This would normally mean you’d
have to adjust your Backup Plan manually, but luckily there’s an easier
way:
1. Open the Backup Plan and select “Externalize” from the Functions pop-
up menu.
The program writes each filter description into a small text file, and stores each such text file
in the folder to which the filter is attached. In other words, each folder (for which there is a
filter defined) will now contain a small text file describing the filter settings.
2. Reorganize your hard disk as desired.
Make sure you don’t remove the filter description text files (these are called “@backup.txt”).
3. To update the Backup Plan after the folder structure on the hard disk has
been changed, select “Internalize” from the Functions pop-up menu.
This function makes the program scan the hard disk for filter description text files and add
them to the Backup Plan.
In the dialog that appears, you can specify drive, folder and name of the Backup Plan to
search for. You also get the option to have the found filter descriptions merge with the ex-
isting descriptions in the Backup Plan, or to replace them.
• Note that a filter description file (@backup.txt) can contain the descriptions
of different Backup Plans.
You can also easily edit these files manually, and use the Add Pattern functions on the Pat-
terns pop-up menu to import these into a Backup Plan.